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As Carmina prepares for the upcoming changes on February 1, 2027

Carmina heard that YouTube has a new guideline for those who are considering to be fully monetized starting February 1, 2027 , lots of people will be affected. People are already having a difficult time accomplishing 4,000 public watched hour what happens when it is double task. Carmina is grateful she has passed the 3,000 public watched hours yet worried if don't reach being fully monetized. I know it explains that won't be affected however we want to make sure by February 1, 2027, that we are fully monetized giving me five months to work harder. As of August 9, 2026, Carmina has 383 public watched hours to accomplish to be fully monetized. My friends tell me better have extended public watched hours just to be safe. The only way to complete the public watched hours is either you have friends play your playlist, go live streaming and do premiere since counted as a live stream. Somehow, I am grateful had encounter YouTube friends helping me with my public watched hours. The...

What is Top Fan Badges in Facebook Page?

It never occurred to me that your viewer, follower and audience can actually receive a Top Fan Badges in your Facebook Page. I am new to this and didn't realize there was such a thing when having a personal blog link on too you're Facebook Page. What is Top Fan Badges? Top fan badges is the top number one followers who is active reading all your post, comments and liked in what you have in your Facebook Page. How does one become recognized? The Facebook Page that you have followed will receive an notification saying who is the person who is nominated a the Top Fan Badges this person will not who they are once you send a personal message to them to recognized their achievements. There are ways to reach out to your follower either you post it on your page or send them a personal message. There are some people who don't want to be recognized best to leave them a personal message. We all learn something new at this so any Facebook Page you follow and become ...

Fried Tilapia Recipe

This is not just an ordinary fried tilapia fish for the Filipinos we eat this with other dipping sauce to add more flavoring in our meal alone. There are some people who just dip it with soy sauce and calamansi topped with rice in their meal. The other option is the following: Atchara Ripe tomato with salted egg Spicy vinegar Kimchi Salsa with mango Fried Tilapia Recipe: Ingredient: 2 Pieces Tilapia (clean and remove scales) 2 Tsp Salt Cooking Oil Preparing the Tilapia : Add 1 tsp of salt on both and the inside try rubbing with your hands Leave for 15 minutes for the salt to absorb to the fish. Cooking Instructions: Heat oil in the frying pan When oil is hot add small amount of cornstarch, flour or baking soda this prevent the oil to splatter once you have added the fish. Fry each side for 6 to 10 minutes on each side on medium heat. Strain fish on a strainer to remove excess oil NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Chann...

How do you eat your canned sardines?

Sardine is a popular canned good that can be cook in so many ways. I will share you ways people eat their canned sardines. Some people like it just from the can and eat it the way.  Some people like to sauté and cooked with onion and garlic with the canned sardine. Our employee also put sardines in egg omelets or in their soup. Some people eat it with sauté onion and scramble egg with the canned sardine. Some people put it on their noodles. There are no limits how you want to eat your canned sardines. The Filipino eats their sardine with rice or in pandesal bread tops it with sunny side up egg. Filipino Sardine Recipe: Ingredient: Canned of sardines 1 - Onion (chopped) 2 - Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 - Egg (beaten) - Optional Step 1: In a pan add little amount of cooking oil Add garlic and onion sauté Add the sardines from the canned along with its tomato sauce Add egg (optional) Mix together until egg is cooked Ready to eat. ...

Filipino Beef Steak Recipe

Filipino Beef Steak Recipe Ingredients: 1 ½ Beef sirloin thinly slice 1 - White onion (slice circle) 1/4 Cup – Kikkoman Lite Soy Sauce - any brand 1/2 Cup - Calamansi or Lemon juice Ground Pepper to taste 1 - Tbs Unsalted Butter (any brand) 1 Cup Water Step 1: In a Ziploc or Tupperware Add calamansi or lemon juice, Kikkoman Lite soy sauce and mix well Add tenderloin steak Set aside Marinate for one hour Step 2: In a frying pan add butter melt in low heat Add Step 1: Make sure you drain the beef sirloin from the marinated sauce and set aside. Add onion Pour remaining marinated sauce Season with black pepper Cook until meat is tender. Ready to serve on a flat plate. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Grilled Pusit Recipe

This is a popular dish when you feel like eating for a change you can either wrap this up in banana leaf or aluminum foil of your choice. Ingredients: 3 – Large Pusit (squid) (clean and remove scales) 2 - Pieces Ripe Tomato (chopped) 1 - Onion (chopped) 1 - Tsp Ginger (minced) 1 - Tbsp Calamansi or Lemon Juice 1 – Cup Soy sauce Salt  Black Pepper Step 1: In a bowl add tomato, onion, ginger and calamansi or lemon juice Add salt, black pepper and soy sauce Mix well Step 2: Add Step 1 and place inside the squid with a spoon. Rub cooking oil on the squid prevent stick to the aluminum foil or banana leaf. Step 3: Wrap the squid in aluminum foil or banana leaf seal tightly by folding both ends secure. Step 4: Grilling: Cook for 6 to 8 minutes each side on a charcoal. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support. .

Grilled Tilapia or Bangus Recipe

This is a popular dish when you feel like eating something healthy for a change you can either wrap this up in banana leaf or aluminum foil of your choice. You can either have it grilled or place in your oven whichever is  convenient. You can use any fish you prefer but we use either boneless bangus (milk fish) or tilapia. Ingredients: 1 - Choice of Medium size fish (clean and remove scales) 2 - Pieces Ripe Tomato (chopped) 1 - Onion (chopped) 2 - Tsp Ginger (minced) 1 - Tbsp Calamansi or Lemon Juice Salt  Black Pepper Preparing the Fish: Slit the fish until you reach the bone. Add 1 tsp of salt on both sides by rubbing with your hands Leave for 15 minutes for the salt to absorb to the fish. Step 1: In a bowl add tomato, onion, ginger and calamansi or lemon juice Add salt and black pepper Mix well Step 2: Add Step 1 and place inside the cavity of the fish. Rub cooking oil on the fish prevent fish sticky to the aluminum foil or banana lea...

Ginataang Kalabasa Recipe

This is one of my favorite dishes that is cooked by Manang V our cook. This is made of squash and in tagalog they call it kalabasa. We cook this dish with coconut milk that is usually fresh but if in your area coconut is not available you can use a can called, gata. There are different ways to cook this dish you can use shrimp, crab, fish or pork belly anything is possible there are no restrictions. Optional vegetables added in this recipe are eggplant, string beans, malunggay leaves, ampalaya (bitter melon), ginger and hot pepper You can also add shrimp paste bagoon alamang. Ingredients: 1/2 kilo - Kalabasa or Squash (spoon out seeds, peel and cut into 1 inch) 1/4 Kilo - choice of shrimp, fish or pork belly 10 Pieces - String Beans  1 Cup - Malunggay leaves (Optional) 1 Large Ampalaya (cut in diagonal Slices) 2 Eggplant (sliced diagonally) 2 Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 Medium Onion (chopped) 5 Pieces - Okra (cut top and bottom) 2 - Finger Green Chilies (Optional) ...

Chapter 18: Over Stepping Your Boundaries

As our parents start to age and when you live in another country there is such thing as caring for your parents how the Filipinos are custom to do when are parents to reach an aged that they are not capable staying home without any guidance. You realize and you begin to cry as Michelle saw in Jack's parents no one cared to take care of them when she left her son and moved to another house. Michelle had just realized when she didn't want to return back to Jack's neighborhood, she never thought about what his parents we're going through when she wasn't around. Michelle just realized how much Jack's parents we're neglected in the way no one took care of them the sense in cleaning their home.  Michelle had cleaned each day seeing the house they lived look like a house that was so unkempt with cobwebs in the ceiling. Michelle had a dream that in her dream she had parents living with her and she realize when you have parents who reach a certain ...

Add Friend or Unfriend

I will count how much time you will unfriend me in social media when you’re not yourself you will do it and when you are sober you will ask me back again. I already figured you out you don’t like what I tell you so you do it for no reason and come around when you feel like it. I will count how much time you will ask me to come back when you reach your limit you have already reach your limits you will be block from my life forever and let’s see how you will find me. It is no reason for me to worry because they are more fishes in the sea who would keep me and be my friend and not let go to make it out of a joke to do it over again. Never met someone like you who add a friend and unfriend them over like a broken record it no longer bother me I just laugh at loud because it is not me who looks crazy doing it I wonder if you do this to your other friends.

Chop Suey Recipe

I will share a secret ingredient to add more flavor to your chop suey. Chop Suey Recipe: Ingredients: ½ kilo pork (sliced) 1 ½ cup cauliflower 1 – Carrot (peels and slices) ¼ kilo – snow peas ¼ kilo – baby corn 1 – Piece bell pepper (sliced into strips) ½ Cabbage (sliced) Optional 12 pieces quail eggs (boiled and peel) 1 – Piece Onion (chopped) 4 – Cloves Garlic (minced) Patis to taste 1 - Knorr Crab and Corn Soup Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a medium pot add cooking oil, onion and garlic sauté Add pork and patis Add cauliflower, snow peas, baby corn, bell pepper and cabbage Step 2: Follow Knorr Crab and Corn Soup Instructions add to the chop suey. Cook until tender do not overcook vegetables. Ready to eat! NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Pechay with Shrimp Recipe

Pechay with Shrimp Recipe Ingredients: ½ kilo – Pechay (chopped) ¼ Kilo – Shrimp (clean, remove head and slice) 1 – Roma Tomato (chopped) 1 – Onion (chopped) 2 – Clove Garlic 1 – Tbsp Patis 1 – Cup Water 1 – Tbsp Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Cook in a pan add cooking oil add garlic, onion and tomato Add patis Add water, pechay and shrimp Cook for 30 minutes in low heat. Ready to serve. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Pork Chop Recipe

Pork Chop Recipe: Ingredient: 1 kilo Pork Chop Salt Pepper Step 1: Sprinkle salt and black pepper both side of pork chop Step 2: Boil water and half cook pork chop Step 3: Heat oil in pan until boil Cook pork chop until cooked. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Ampalaya Recipe

Ampalaya is a bitter melon that is good benefit for people who are high blood and diabetic it lowers your sugar. In order to make the ampalaya less bitter when cooking is to do the following open the ampalaya length wise using a spoon remove seeds and white pith underneath until you see the green gourd. Add salt to the ampalaya where you had removed the seeds and white pith leave for five minutes until salt dissolved on its own. Rinse the ampalaya with water and dry with paper towel. Or slice ¼ inches moon shape and place in a bowl of water with salt leave for five minutes and rinse out and drain water. Ingredient: 4 - Pieces Ampalaya (clean and cut thin slices) 1 -Tbsp garlic (miced) 1 -Tbsp Patis (Fish Sauce) 1 - Tomato (sliced) 1 - Onion (sliced)1 - Canola oil ½ kilo - Shrimp (peel, remove head and slice) ¼ pork kilo ground pork Optional 1 beaten egg Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a cooking pot place cooking oil add garlic, onion and tomato sauté...

Family, Marriage, Boyfriend, Girlfriend and Friendship

When something new comes along and you worked off a new friendship when that friendship vanish in thin air you start to begin to wonder what you have said to that person. In every friendship is just like having a relationship you hold on to it just like you would hold on to your family, marriage, boyfriend and girlfriend. What happens when one person who had become a part of your life vanish not even explaining yourself to you why they did what they did? After watching a lot of videos about relationship to understand myself better because this has never happened to me before I had to understand that it wasn’t my fault to begin with it was the person who held something against me. When we come across a person like this you realize one thing that all the friendship you still have is something greater than the friendship you have just lost those are the friends who stuck to you just like any relationship would have worked on. I realize that I place myself to work o...